There is no point in being precise if you do not even know what you are talking about. — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
“When you take the right stairs you will arrive at the precise destination.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
I liked Truman very much. He was precise and businesslike. After a while, it was his turn. — Lord Mountbatten Copy Share Image
To be precise and reckless: that is the consummation devoutly to be wished. — James Dickey Copy Share Image
It's important to make a distinction between becoming more precise and becoming better. — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“To be more precise about it, it is neither close nor open-mindedness but wisdom, discernment, and a pure heart that God wants.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which… — John Tukey Copy Share Image
The most challenging thing is how to portray someone that is so well known that people still recall him in a very… — Gaspard Ulliel Copy Share Image
To make a precise scientific description of reality out of words is like trying to build a rigid structure out of pure… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I am very precise about what food I like. I'm very much a nursery-food person, and really hate chichi dishes. — Trinny Woodall Copy Share Image
As a movie fan, my number one goal is to continue to learn from what I've done and make special effects as… — Gregory Nicotero Copy Share Image
I have no precise idea of who makes up my readership. I'm surprised when I discover people have read my poems at… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
“Don't go in for the "yellowish" if what you need is "yellow". The attitude called precision is the quality that remarks the… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Nothing can happen, nothing can occur in your life which is not a precisely perfect opportunity for you to heal something, create… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, only simple conceptions can grip the mind of a nation. An idea that is clear and precise even though false… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Words created divergencies between beings, because their precise meanings put an opinion around the idea. Music only retains the highest and purest… — Nadia Boulanger Copy Share Image
This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It's, on its best day, is a crude art. We make mistakes;… — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
I gave up caring about anything, and all the problems disappeared. And it was after that that I found out the truth… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which… — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
We human beings have enormous difficulty in focusing on the present; we always thinking about what we did, about how we could… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
It takes about ten years to make a mature dancer. The training is twofold. There is the study and practice of the… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
When I got onto set with him we were given a folder of storyboards. I thought that was pretty incredible because I… — Mia Wasikowska Copy Share Image
It makes no sense to seek a single best way to represent knowledge-because each particular form of expression also brings its particular… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
Even the Interior Ministry in Riyadh was hit. Since then, the Saudis have employed a very intelligent and comprehensive approach to counter… — David Petraeus Copy Share Image
I'm a singer, not a vocal stylist. My breathing is correct; my enunciation is precise. Because of that, I can sing anybody's… — Ronnie Milsap Copy Share Image
The daily disappearance and the subsequent rise of the sun appeared to many of the ancients as a true resurrection; thus, while… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
It is one of my targets to show people that a lot of things that are part of their landscape - that… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Truth is hard-hearted and unrelenting, too clear, precise; a lie is much more imaginative. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
A small silence came between us, as precise as a picture hanging on the wall. — Jean Stafford Copy Share Image
There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about. — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
It's the cliches that cause the trouble. A precise emotion seeks a precise expression. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Golf is the only game in which a precise knowledge of the rules can earn one a reputation for bad sportsmanship. — Patrick Campbell, 3rd Baron Glenavy Copy Share Image
Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because they’re lazy, and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even… — Ben Bradlee Copy Share Image
The films I love are very precise, and every shot means something; every shot should convey something new. — David Lowery Copy Share Image
